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March 24, 2014 | Globe Newswire
Results from a three-year study by Independence Blue Cross (IBC) demonstrating reduced costs and utilization for high-risk patients cared for by patient-centered medical homes appear today in The American Journal of Managed Care. The study...
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March 21, 2014 | The John A. Hartford Foundation
The John A. Hartford Foundation is pleased to present the findings of “On Your Team,” its third public poll, examining older adults’ experiences and opinions of team care and the patient-centered medical home. In “On Your Team,” older...
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March 20, 2014 | AAFP News
What's the best way to bring a good idea to fruition? Make sure people know about it. That's exactly what the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) did last year when it launched an interactive database(www.pcpcc.org) that...
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March 20, 2014 | The Huffington Post
We live in an age of immediacy, fueled by 24/7 news cycles and a robust social media environment. We find humor in watching a cat chase a laser pointer, but our pursuit of the new and shiny is no less present. One negative review can lead...
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March 20, 2014 | AAFP News
March 20, 2014 05:20 pm Sheri Porter – What's the best way to bring a good idea to fruition? Make sure people know about it. That's exactly what the Patient-Centered Primary Care Collaborative (PCPCC) did last year when it launched an...
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March 19, 2014 | Brookings
With millions more Americans now eligible for health insurance coverage, health care organizations and providers throughout the U.S. are experiencing increasing pressure to balance the growing demand for health care services. At the same...
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March 19, 2014 | MinnPost
As the giant boomer cohort of Americans begins to reach senior status, neither individuals nor the disparate components of the U.S. medical system have fully prepared for a new reality: People can expect to live far longer than their...
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March 11, 2014 | Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
When it comes to getting the word out about consumer products, Procter & Gamble (P&G) has etched into the American lexicon everything from Charmin® toilet paper and Crest® toothpaste to Vicks® cough drops. So when a collaborative...
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March 6, 2014 | CMS
SUMMARY: The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) seeks information about large scale transformation of clinician practices to accomplish our aims of better care and better health at lower costs. CMS seeks responses to...
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March 6, 2014 | Blue Cross Blue Shield Michigan
Recently, a three year evaluation of a medical home pilot was published in JAMA that found limited effects of the medical home. On the surface, these findings run counter to the Health Services Research Journal study first published in...
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March 5, 2014 | Healio
From international law firm Arnold & Porter LLP comes timely views on current regulatory and legislative topics that weigh on the minds of today’s physicians and health care executives. Despite the winter weather emergency in...
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March 5, 2014 | Wing of Zock
A new initiative being launched today will usher in a new era for population health, whose progress historically has been stymied by multiple stakeholders who don’t communicate, using a variety of unvalidated models. This initiative, A...
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March 4, 2014 | National Journal
At 8:15 every weekday morning, the Culinary Extra Clinic team meets to talk about patients its members are most worried about. There are more than one thousand regular clinic patients in the Las Vegas area, most of whom work in hospitality...
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February 27, 2014 | USA Today
President Obama will propose boosting the National Health Services Corps from 8,900 a year to 15,000 a year over the next five years, as well as spending $5.23 billion to train 13,000 primary care residents over the next 10 years, in his...
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February 27, 2014 | The Commonwealth Fund
The bipartisan, bicameral compromise measure to replace how Medicare pays physicians would cost $138.4 billion for 2014 through 2024, according to the latest Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimate, and lawmakers are struggling to find...
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February 26, 2014 | Psychiatric News
For America’s employers, whether in the public sector or the private sector, health care is a problem. And while the movement toward integrated, collaborative care is being driven by many forces, there is no doubt that the nation’s...
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February 26, 2014 | PCPCC Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Staci GoldbergBelle, 202-417-2076, staci@pcpcc.org   PCPCC Leadership Responds to JAMA Article on Medical Home Pilot Study   February 26, 2014 (WASHINGTON, DC) – As the leading coalition dedicated to...
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February 26, 2014 | Modern Healthcare
The difficulty in precisely measuring the benefits of the patient-centered medical home model comes across in two new studies offering seemingly contradictory insights on the concept. A three-year study comparing 32 Southeast Pennsylvania...
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February 21, 2014 | Kaiser Health News
Networks of doctors and hospitals set up under the Affordable Care Act to improve patients' health and save money for Medicare are having varying rates of success in addressing their patients’ diabetes and heart disease, according to...
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February 20, 2014
Please join the PCPCC as we urge Congress to repair the flawed US health care payment system, beginning with Medicare. The PCPCC has drafted this template letter requesting swift action on the  “SGR Repeal and Medicare Provider Payment...
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